Quotes About Hope

A lighted window floats through the night like a piece of paper in the wind. I want to see into it. I want to climb through into its lighted room. As I reach for it it slips through the trees. As I chase it it rolls and tumbles into the air and skitters on through the night...

I'm waiting for something worth waiting for.

When I think of the sacrifice yet to be offered and the hearts and homes yet to be made desolate before this dreadful war is over, my heart is like lead within me, and I feel at times like hiding in a deep darkness.

You will have gathered that I am disappointed, generally speaking, with the Neoconservative faction. I had hope that they might bring lively imagination into the conservative camp; instead, they have urged conservatives to engage in ideological sloganizing, the death of political imagination.

The result is a book that cannot be read easily. It requires study. We hope that some will have the patience and inclination to do so.

The first Manhattanites didn't arrive with lofty ideals. They came--whether as farmer, tanner, prostitute, wheelwright, barmaid, brewer, or trader--because there was a hope for a better life. There was a distinct messiness to the place they created. But it was very real, and in a way, very modern.

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.

Her mother came into the room and sat on the edge of the bed. "Sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we think it will, but it could mean that better things are at the door.

Ruth Ann Nordin

Now I know why they call sick people by the word 'patient'. The patient has to have patience. Wait and wait and wait and not lose hope" -Ruthie

We come from people who found hope wherever they went.

My life has become a story. One day your life with become a story too. All we can do is have faith that life leads us where it does for a reason, so we can learn things we didn't know about ourselves. One day you will look back on your suffering and you will find a meaning for it and that will be your story" -Baba

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?" -Ruthie

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?

Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

But what if--- Most of what if never happens.

From somewhere in the garden came a burble of childish laughter. He [Ruso] reached forward, put his arms around her [Tilla's] waist and rested his head against the belly that was not holding his baby, and perhaps never would. "Everyone else," he said. "Why not us?

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

Never give up and never face the facts.